Convenor Message - A4 Updates return

ASD-related Advocacy and Politics

• Federal Election - coming in 2022
• Get Serious about Autism
• Shifting the Dial on Autism
• Brief & meeting with Health officials - autism is a distinct disability
• RE: Escalating risks for people with disability from Omicron and access to RAT and PCR tests
• NDIS early intervention for autistic children - update 24/12/2021
• interim submission on the sustainability of the NDIS

Autism and Autistics' News

Australia

• New job led to ‘broken life’ under disability scheme spruiked as success story
• ‘Wildly unreasonable’: agency slashes mother’s NDIS funding and then her daughter’s
• 'Paradigm shift': The pre-emptive therapy exciting autism researchers
• Scripts make jab easier for autistic kids
• Families in crisis after NDIS funding cuts to participants with autism and intellectual disabilities
• Autism is still underdiagnosed in girls and women. That can compound the challenges they face
• Disability Sector Statement of Concern On the Religious Discrimination Bill & impacts on people with disability
• Sexologist Jodi Rodgers backs Dylan Alcott's call, everyone deserves love
• Non-verbal autistic people like my son will never write his story. That doesn’t mean no one should
• ‘Clients say it feels like we’ve always known each other’: the mental health experts who believe their autism has turbocharged their work
• Eating disorders potentially hiding autism diagnosis
• Expecting Grace Tame To Smile Is Not Only Sexist, It’s Ableist
• Discovering the 'hidden histories' of late-diagnosed autistic adults
• Gut bacteria don’t cause autism. Autistic kids’ microbiome differences are due to picky eating
• COVID vaccinations, PCR and rapid tests particularly challenging for autistic children
• Myth Busting: NDIS won't fund that
• The 'autism advantage' at work and how it's giving firms a competitive edge
• Being neurodiverse is not a barrier to success, but traditional job interviews might be
• NDIS to fund assistance dog
• NDIA spending on law firms to fight participants over cuts to payments
• Preparing kids for life after school is tough. When your child has autism, it can be overwhelming
• La Trobe University researchers help prevent suicide in the autistic and and LGBTIQA+ communities with website
• NDIS launches historic suit against care home over 2019 death of resident who drowned in bath
• How Nick McAllister found his words after a tough time looking for employment as an autistic writer

WA

• New WA research gives non-verbal people with autism a voice in bid to boost communication

Vic

• NDIS too focussed on costs over people's needs, says autism peak body
• ‘Best thing in my life’: Dad breaks down over autistic son’s 99.45 VCE score
• Vivid new artworks reigniting CBD
• Parents fight for autistic siblings to remain in specialist school

NSW

• NSW: ‘Unacceptable’ wait to screen children for developmental delays, autism
• NSW back-to-school testing requirements difficult for students with sensory issues
• Early birds find museum welcomes those on autism spectrum

ACT

• 'It scares me': seven-year-old Ashley loses therapy in NDIS funding cut

NT

• Jonty is the first Aussie Rules umpire living with autism to officiate at a semi-professional level

Qld

• How a father and son bond is helping other kids with autism move for independence

Overseas

USA

• USA: Developmental milestones just changed for the first time in years
• CDC: Autism prevalence in children up significantly from 2016 to 2018, and that's actually a good thing

UK

• ‘A lot fell into place’: the adults who discovered they were autistic – after their child was diagnosed